<in a country with a population of more than a billion, there remain a staggering 900 million-odd people untouched by the much-hyped telecommunication revolution".>[Mario Goveia, citing IHT, April 23]
Leave alone the claim about superpower status, this neglect of telecom may even reflect on the nature of our vaunted "democracy"! The explosion of satellite TV during the 90s and the attention to highways may however have been a somewhat reassuring factor in this regard. These of course are not definitive measures one way or another but are perhaps indicative of the real state of affairs which we otherwise take for granted.